rattled - Story 109043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor in Amelia’s legs was subtle, but present. Each impact from the demolition next door sent a jolt through her bones. She clutched her teacup tighter, knuckles white.

She could feel her heart rate speeding up. The sounds, amplified by the morning quiet, were a barrage. She couldn't focus on the book she'd been reading, the words blurring before her eyes.

She decided to make a cup of tea, hoping the ritual would soothe her. But as the kettle hissed and the construction noise continued, her hands began to shake. She couldn't even manage to stir the sugar properly.

Emotion: rattled

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.29 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.42

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion rattled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 rattled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the rattled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the rattled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.264
`😣`	0.261
`worse`	0.256
`😞`	0.248
`😖`	0.247

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.571
`la`	-0.414
`a`	-0.377
`happy`	-0.259
`enthusi`	-0.234